Periodic Drug Disorders (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

L. Salzer

9780484536837: Periodic Drug Disorders (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0484536834 ISBN 13: 9780484536837

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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A Collection of periodic morbid disturbances as having been caused in healthy persons by the use of drugs, may be of some interest to any one who has chosen the science of Medicine as the subject of his study. It is, however, doubtful, whether the slightest practical use could ever be derived from such a collection, by the majority of medical practitioners of the present day. Not even for the purpose of Medical Jurisprudence could this collection of ours be made serviceable; for nine-tenths of the drug-symptoms recorded, are far from being absolute consequences of drug-action; they are, moreover, supposed to be contingent in their manifestation; they have been produced in certain individuals, while others, who might just as well have tried the very same drugs on themselves, might not have developed either the same, or even any similar, symptoms. The majority of the drug-disorders recorded in the following pages are then by no means pharmacognomic that is to say, exclusively pointing to one single drug and no other as the originator of the disorder; and Medical Jurisprudence could hardly avail itself of the fruits of this collection of ours.

It so happens, that the Homœopathic School of Medicine does know how to draw advantage from the administration of drugs, known to have produced contingent symptoms, to patients exhibiting a train of similar symptoms. To the homœopathic practitioner, this volume, of which the first Part is herewith presented, should then, according to what I know about the facts connected with the subject, be of great value.

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